- Date
- April 11, 2026, 12:25 local (16:25 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N38020Beech 58
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260411004759A
- Case key
- 202825
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadvertent retraction of the landing gear lever during the landing roll, which resulted in a gear collapse and runway excursion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
According to the pilot, during the landing roll, he was attempting to retract the flaps but inadvertently grabbed and moved the landing gear lever to the retracted position. Immediately after, the pilot recalled hearing the landing gear position warning horn and realized his mistake, but the landing gear down locks had already disengaged and the landing gear subsequently collapsed. The airplane slid down the runway before coming to rest to the right of the runway in a drainage ditch, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38020
- Reported as
- Beech 58 (UNDESIGNATED SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-1208
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 5,104.5
- Engines
- Continental Aerospace Technologies IO-520-CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental Aerospace Technologies IO-520-CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pardue Hines Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Pardue Hines Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 10, 2025 · 64.6 hours before
- Departed
- MTN · Middle River, MD
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- W29 · Bay Bridge Airport, runway 11, 2,714 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Onboard weather
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 13, 2026
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,983 total · 468 in this make and model · 1,939 as pilot in command · 20.7 in the last 90 days · 2.5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 11 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.29 inHg
- Observed at
- W29, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KW29 111635Z AUTO 36011G17KT 10SM CLR A3029 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.5 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.